This chapter is aimed at professionals in Scotland working with children attending Gaelic
Medium Education (GME) presenting with speech, language and communication difficulties …

Research worldwide suggests that service delivery by speech-language therapists (SLTs) to
bilingual children is problematic and largely unsatisfactory. In multicultural South Africa, the …

Diagnosing specific language impairment (SLI) in monolingual children is a complex task,
with some controversy regarding criteria. Diagnosis of SLI in bilinguals is made more …

Services for children with speech and language needs in England and Wales are in a period
of change. The context is subject to major systemic pressures deriving from government …

There is emerging evidence that bilingualism is advantageous to children with speech,
language and communication needs (SLCN), reflected in recommendations to promote …

Background: At least 25% of autistic children worldwide have the potential to grow up in a
bilingual environment. However, many autistic children are being denied opportunities to …

It is generally accepted that the majority of the world's population speaks more than one
language and that the monolingual situation is rather uncommon (eg Aitchison, 1994) …

Background An increasing number of children in the UK and Ireland are growing up
speaking more than one language. The many advantages of bilingualism are …

This work reports the results of a survey study conducted with French-, German-, and Italian-
speaking speech and language therapists (SLTs) in Switzerland. In this survey we asked …

Not so long ago there was little on offer in terms of suitable linguistic assessment for children
from bilingual or minority ethnic backgrounds, and little in the way of evidence-based …